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Ram Krishna Singh’s Tanka

a healer says

my sufferings not my fault:

karmic imprint

pay him twenty dollars

break free from the past weight gain


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dull notes of life

await re-ordering —

rhythm and pitch

behind closed walls humming

to search my own music


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lying in sun

on a straw mattress

a nude couple

whisper dreamed-up nest

when their ship comes in


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taunting the old pain

in the brothel of bed

kitchen or shower

she fears the freaky bodies

snaky arousal and peak


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Shiva and Shakti

our freedom in union

twin flame of love

rolling in grains of sand

transcending together


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Ram Krishna Singh , born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, is a retired professor of English, writing poetry for over four decades. He is widely published, anthologized and translated into several languages. He has published 60 books, including the collections Against the Waves: Selected Poems (2021), Silencio: Blanca desconfianza/ Silence: White distrust (Spanish/English, 2021), Changing Seasons: Selected Tanka and Haiku (English/Arabic, 2021), Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021), 白濁 : SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2022), Poems and Micropoems (2023), and Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (2024). More at https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh

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